Phenomenex Extends Kinetex and Luna Omega Performance Advantages to 1mm ID Format

Torrance, Calif. (March 2, 2017) – Phenomenex Inc., a global leader in the research, design and manufacture of advanced technologies for the separation sciences, announces the expansion of its leading Kinetex core-shell and Luna Omega fully porous media offerings to a new 1mm ID microbore format. These new stainless steel columns are compatible with micro... Read more

Oxford Instruments Asylum Research Introduces Its New SurfRider “HQ-Series” of High Quality, Budget-Priced AFM Probes

02 March 2017 Oxford Instruments Asylum Research introduces its new SurfRider “HQ-Series” Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) probes, offering best-in-class performance at budget pricing. HQ probes are high quality silicon probes exclusively manufactured by Asylum and can be used in all commercially-available AFMs. They offer greater ease-of-use, higher quality and improved consistency for repeatable measurements compared... Read more

Oldest fossils detected by Raman imaging

March 2017 Dominic Papineau and Matt Dodd in the Geological Spectroscopy Laboratory.Copyright: UCL (UK) When did life on Earth begin? Based on new Raman data from microfossils, scientists have dated the origin of life to at least 3,77 billion years ago. Bubbling submarine-hydrothermal vents are believed to be the places where life on Earth emerged.... Read more

Luminex Corporation To Present At The Barclays Global Healthcare Conference

AUSTIN, Texas, March 1, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Luminex Corporation (NASDAQ: LMNX) today announced that management will present at the Barclays Global Healthcare Conference to be held at the Loews Miami Beach Hotel March 14 – 16, 2017, in Miami Beach, FL. The investor presentation will begin at 4:20 p.m. Eastern time on Wednesday, March 15,... Read more

Thermo Fisher Scientific Elects New Director to Board

WALTHAM, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (NYSE: TMO), the world leader in serving science, today announced it has elected Dion Weisler to its board of directors, effective today. Mr. Weisler’s appointment brings the total number of Thermo Fisher board members to 12. Mr. Weisler has been president and chief executive officer of HP Inc. since... Read more

GE Healthcare expands MRI contrast media product range in Europe with launch of macrocyclic agent Clariscan

VIENNA, AUSTRIA – 1 March, 2017 – Growing its range of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) contrast media options available to patients and radiologists, GE Healthcare today announced the launch of Clariscan™ (gadoteric acid) at the European Congress of Radiology (ECR) 2017 meeting. Clariscan is a gadolinium-based contrast agent (GBCA) designed to support effective visualisation of... Read more

Do you know what phloem and the Münch hypothesis are about?

Long distance transport in plants occurs in sieve tubes of the phloem. The pressure flow hypothesis introduced by Ernst Münch in 1930 describes a mechanism of osmotically generated pressure differentials that are supposed to drive the movement of sugars and other solutes in the phloem, but this hypothesis has long faced major challenges. The key... Read more